Web browser. A software application that allows for the browsing of the World Wide Web.
Description:
Everything that is produced for the WWW must take various Web browsers into consideration, and marketing is no exception. Different browsers can have radically different capabilities and limitations.
Some sites try to support almost all existing browsers, while others try to support only the newest and most popular browsers. A middle-ground approach is to have some enhanced features for newer browsers, yet provide graceful degradation for older browsers.
Let’s look at the top 4 browser:
Internet Explorer (IE) by Microsoft is the most common Internet browser today. IE was introduced in 1995 and passed Netscape in popularity in 1998.
Firefox
Firefox is a new browser from Mozilla. It was released in 2004 and has grown to be the second most popular browser on the Internet.
Opera
Opera is another Internet browser. It is known to be fast and small, standards-compliant, and available for many operating systems. Opera is the preferred browser for a number of small devices like mobile phones and hand-held computers.
Safari
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included in Mac OS X. It was first released as a public beta on January 7, 2003, and is the default browser in Mac OS X v10.3 and later. It is also the native browser on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Safari for Windows was released on June 11, 2007. Windows XP and Windows Vista are supported.